Sybase puts first products behind Unwired Enterprise - News Review

Rethink IT, March, 2004

Sybase has shipped a new version of its Pocket PowerBuilder development environment, specifically designed to speed up and simplify the creation of mobile and wireless applications.

This is the latest move in Sybase's bid to make the mobile enterprise the centerpiece of its strategy, and to boost corporate interest in mobilization by making applications development simpler.

Pocket PowerBuilder allows applications to be created in hours and deployed in days, claims the company, and brings complex data synchronization with enterprise databases within the remit of a rapid development tool.

Among its features are a full integrated development environment with many ready-made components and drag and drop rapid programming techniques; and a patented technology called DataWindow, which supports data access, processing and presentation without coding.

MobiLink is the synchronization tool with links to DB2, SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server and Oracle databases. Predictably, there is tight integration with the iAnywhere mobile tools and ultrasmall database.A first for the database market will be planned support for real time publish and subscribe from the Sybase $QL Anywhere database to mobile devices, enabled by an embedded Java Messaging System.

In November, Sybase set out its stall for 2004 under the Unwired Enterprise banner, which integrates produces from its fastest growing unit, iAnywhere, with others from the main company and under the main Sybase brand. At that time, the company promised an overhaul of the whole range over the coming six months.